CVE-1999-0740 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the in.telnetd daemon on Red Hat Linux. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending a malformed TERM environmental variable. This medium-severity vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.4, indicating it can be exploited over the network with low complexity to cause partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.